The War Graves at Scopwick are in a burial ground some 100 metres behind the Church. 

Scopwick is the village with a parish church closest to RAF Digby. RAF Digby was the first fighter base in the RAF ni 1918.

 The majority of the graves in the burial ground at Scopwick are those of aviators of the Royal Canadian Air Force Squadrons based at RAF Digby during WW2. There are also a number of RNZAF and RAAF graves too. There are 5 German graves, four of them being the crew of a solo intruder aircraft that dropped a couple of bombs on Lincoln before being shot down by a Mosquito nightfighter from RAF Coleby Grange, and the fifth being a German Army POW who died in 1946.  

The most famous grave is that of 19 year old Pilot Officer John GIllespie Magee Jr. Magee is famous as the author of the poem 'High Flight' which he penned after a high altitude test in his Spitfire; Magee logged an oxygen failure in his aircraft and it was later concluded that he had probably suffered from a short period of oxygen starvation, his poem being a literary explanation of how he felt during his period of hypoxia before reducing his altitude and restoring his oxygen supply through normal atmospheric levels. Magee was the son of Christian mercenaries in Shanghai, an American father and Engish Mother. When WW2 broke out, Magee was visiting American family and could not legally return to the UK from the USA, so he crossed the border into Canada and enlisted in the RCAF. After training he was posted to RAF Digby, from where he took off on a training sortie on the day he was killed. Descending in a flight of four Spitfires, he collided in mid-air with an Airspeed Oxford trainer from nearby RAF Cranwell. Although he bailed out, a local farmer observed that he did not have enough altitude for his parachute to deploy and he was killed when he impacted the earth.